Coming Soon: Notes on Endings, by Clare Banks

Clare's poem, "Playing in the Pastoral Dream," was featured at the Best American Poetry on April 6, 2025. The poem will appear in her debut collection, Notes on Endings, forthcoming from Terrapin Books.

Clare Banks is associate editor for Smartish Pace and co-host of the HOT L poetry series in Baltimore. A recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards, her poems have appeared in Iron Horse, Boulevard, and Mississippi Review, among others. She was nominated for the Best New Poets 2023 anthology by Mississippi Review, was a 2023 finalist in Radar Poetry's Coniston Prize and a 2024 finalist in Iron Horse Literary Review's National Poetry Month Prize. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and lives in Baltimore City with her husband, and fellow Smartish Pace editor, Stephen Reichert.